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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Crickets (Gryllidea) » True Crickets (Gryllidae) » Anomalous Crickets (Pentacentrinae) » Trigonidomimus » Belfrage's cricket (Trigonidomimus belfragei)
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Belfrage's cricket - Trigonidomimus belfragei - Trigonidomimus belfragei - female
Copyright © 2016 Chuck Sexton

Belfrage's cricket - Trigonidomimus belfragei - Trigonidomimus belfragei - Female
n.w. Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
October 18, 2016
Attracted to a blacklight in a well-wooded (juniper-oak-elm) suburban backyard near a permanent Hill Country creek. Identified by Brandon Woo on iNaturalist.org. See discussion on original upload here. Identified by the combination of:
-- shortened forewings
-- antennal placement low on head
-- 2nd tarsal segments short and cylindrical
-- hind tarsi with few (3) pairs of spines
-- ovipositor slim and straight.

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Contributed by Chuck Sexton on 14 December, 2016 - 8:49am

thanks for posting!
Awesome animal - keep an eye out for more please!

Moved from Anomalous Crickets.
… metrioptera, 14 December, 2016 - 9:36am login or register to post comments

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